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Bright Spring Colors Are Here
Spring has arrived in full force now. Down here that means in about a week, summer should be here and be baking us alive. At this point already have the air conditioning running, but it’s nice to say goodbye to the cold. This is a busy season in our area. Baseball is in mid-season form…
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First Iris Blooms of Spring Are Here
The first official Iris blooms of Spring have arrived in our garden! Winter here always feels too cold and too long for how far south we live. But every year about this time we remember how quickly things start to bloom and warm up. If you were to look at the hardiness zones for gardens…
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Tall Bearded Iris Immortality
We had one more flower blooming hurrah for the end of summer, the all white bloom of the Tall Bearded Iris variety called Immortality. As I mentioned in a previous post when we had a Surprise Late-Blooming Light Purple Iris we could have one more bulb bloom this fall, a pure white bulb, and this…
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Cotton Rose Ends Our Summer Blooms
Today is Monday, so I went out and shot some Macro Monday blooms for this weekly series post. All of the images below were taken this morning (October 6th) using a macro setup, my Nikon D850 and the 105mm macro lens. Only the second shot below is actually a true macro image though. The blooms…
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Surprise Late-Blooming Light Purple Iris
This year has been, for us anyway, all about the Iris Bulb garden. We built a massive set of garden beds this summer, see Making 40 Raised Beds for Fall Iris Bulbs and Progress Update on Raised Iris Bed Construction if you are interested in some garden box building insanity. This was all for a…
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Purple Banana Flowers Blooming
One of our latest blooming plants revealed their gigantic purples flowers this week. We have a few banana plants around the garden and they don’t always bloom. I didn’t think they were actually going to bloom this year at all since we moved them last year, and then they didn’t start growing leaves until really…
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An Epic Week in the Garden
Today I’m finally bringing back my weekly series called Friday Feet after an epic week of work in the garden. I haven’t done a Friday Feet post in a while. And when I mean a while, I mean the last one was in 2013, so apparently I took a 12 year break. I use to…
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Early Morning Garden Photo Walk
It is so hot outside right now that we can’t really work in the garden past about 9:30am or so. Today I grabbed my camera on my way to pull weeds at our roadside Iris beds. I wanted to take some photos of the only remaining blooms that can survive in this kind of relentless…
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Hot Humid Sticky Sunrise
I mentioned last week I updated and refreshed my Weekly Series posts for my website, this is one of the “new” updates called Wordless Wednesday. Since this is the first post in this new “series” it’s more of a mostly-Wordless Wednesday, which is a photo, or a few related photos, with just three things: a…
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Flowers and a Manual Nikon 55mm AI-s Macro Lens
This weekend, I updated my Weekly Series, adding a landing page for easier navigation. Today’s Macro Monday showcases some of the first images I’ve taken with the old manual focus Nikon 55mm AI-s macro lens. It is a well built inexpensive macro lens to add to your photography.
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